Psychologist Uses Sushi to Make Brain Complexity Simple

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Here's some brain food for you, LITERALLY. (That's pun magic, please applaud.) Seriously, though, there's a clinical psychologist who's posting brain explainers on Instagram using sushi, and they're all so educational and delicious you won't be able to help but release some dopamine.

Atlas Obscura wrote up the scientific sushi rolls, which are being posted by Janelle Letzen, a postdoctoral fellow in clinical psychology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. She told Atlas Obscura that she decided to start posting the info(od)graphics to her Instagram — the_sushi_scientist — because she set a 2017 new year's resolution of learning a new skill, and decided on sushi. But sushi as... an art!

The explainers are overwhelmingly related to neuroscience (although there is one very tasty looking diagram of climate change made with a mushroom roll), and tend to revolve around various injuries, and basic brain chemistry instances.

Letzen covers everything from a complete splitting of the corpus callosum, the fibers that connect the hemispheres of the brain, to how RNA is structured, and each foodie-licious diagram has a simple explainer in text next to it.

Letzen told Atlas Obscura that she does this because she considers herself to be a part of a new generation of scientists, who refer to themselves as "science communicators." These scientists want to explain scientific concepts in a fun, understandable way. (Like this guy, maybe?)